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Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Copie of a Letter written by a M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London concerninge some talke past of late ... about the present state and some proceedinges of the Earle of Leicester and his Frends in England.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.3
Scope and Contents
The name W Hepburne appears on folio ii in a 17th-century hand.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Coppie of a Lettre written by A M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London Concerning some talke ... aboute the present state and some proceedings of the Earle of Leister and his Frinds in England.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.13
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of poem of Hercules Rollock, "De Peste Edinburgi Grassante, anno 1585".
File
Identifier: Acc.4373
Scope and Contents
With contemporary copy, signed by Rollock.
Dates:
circa 1585.
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh laws, `Quoniam attachiamenta`, and `De judicibus`, written by Alexander Foulis in 1454; the last two items have been completed and other statutes, etc., added by a later hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Fragment of chapters in a later hand (folio 1).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 108, and 58 chapters (parts 1 and 2 are numbered continuously) with table at the beginning (folio 2). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) `Assisa Regis David` in 46 chapters (modern numbering) (folio 30 verso). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 3-13.(iv) `Statuta regis...
Dates:
1209-late 16th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by John Kincaid (1909-1981), the schoolteacher and founder member of the Clyde Group.
File
Identifier: MS.26189
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Drafts, fair copies and a few typescripts of poems, 1968-1969, undated (folio l). These were included in the posthumously published collection of John Kincaid's poems, ‘Windward of Ithaca; one man's love of Mull’ (Droitwich, 1986).
(ii) 'The Flyting of Kincaid and Gold', 1969 (folio 36). Manuscripts, corrected typescripts and the final typescript of a poetic dispute written by Kincaid and Eric Gold.
(iii) Drafts of poems by Kincaid, 1968-1969, undated...
Dates:
1968, 1969, undated.
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of and concerning James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26105-26115
Dates:
1913-1971.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Manuscripts of poems by Ruth Munro.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26985-26987
Scope and Contents
Ruth Munro was the daughter of Robert Henry Munro, an Edinburgh hosiery manufacturer.
These manuscripts are fair copies of later poems written out in coloured inks, in covers decorated by the author.
All the poems in MS.26986 are also included in MS.26985.
Dates:
1942.
Material concerning the Constables of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.31
Scope and Contents
(i) `De Constabulariis fet officio Constabularij Angliae`, 1628. A collection of material compiled by Sir James Balfour on the duties and powers of the Constables, including copies of charters and other documents, mostly from the Cotton Manuscripts. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copy of royal commission to report on the office of High Constable of Scotland, 1627. (Folio 41.)
Dates:
1627-1628.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Materials towards ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.3-20.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of notes and extracts, mostly from published sources, together with some correspondence, and a number of fair copies of early versions of parts of the text. Many of the items, particularly the fair copies of the text, are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James Chalmers. The letters are dated between 1794 and 1805: the other writings are undated but watermarks visible in the leaves are dated within this period.
Dates:
?1794-?1805.
`Methodus medendi generalis`, a medical treatise with a general survey and three parts, dealing with the head, the chest and the stomach respectively.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.16
Scope and Contents
The date 16 September 1610 occurs on folio 137.The treatise is followed (folio 377 verso) by copies of poems of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, some of which are printed in ‘Regulae bene et salubriter vivendi’ (Edinburgh, 1701). Copies of the rest, with two exceptions, are to be found in Adv.MS.15.2.5. The exceptions (folios 377-381) are an Apology, beginning `Clerice qui fasces et opes virtutibus aequas`, and verses in honour of Catherine, Countess of Haddington (died 1635)....
Dates:
1610.
Microfilm of manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.561
Dates:
1621.
Microfilm of manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, containing the Gospels of Saints Mark, Luke and John; and, papers, late 17th century, concerning the Scottish Benedictines at Ratisbon
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.301
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, possibly of the 11th century, the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John (Adv.MS.18.8.16);Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers, late 17th century, in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish Benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon. (Adv.MS.29.7.1);Account, [circa...
Dates:
?11th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous historical and topographical items, copied in the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.488
Dates:
1471, 1618, 1670, 18th century.
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Dates:
[1925, or after-?1959.]
Microfilms of a copy made by Allan Ramsay the elder from the Bannatyne manuscript of 'Satyre of the thrie estaitis' by Sir David Lindsay; and of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15556-15557 [Mf.MSS.51-52]
Dates:
2nd quarter of 16th century, [1806, or before].